"Seeing the English Coast was like seeing home again. None of us could deny that he had not been scared to death and I know I was praying every minute and thinking how much I wanted to live. I just couldn't go now that I had Eileen and we were going to have a baby. Life was just beginning to take on meaning. Back over the field we peeled off from the formation and came in to land. There was a good cross wind and I didn't make the best landing, but we were on the ground and came to a screeching halt as they say. Back at the hardstand the ground crew gave us the high sign and big smiles. Those boys really sweat a mission like that out. We had lost four ships today, all from the 351st, my Squadron." Diary of 2nd LT. James Lantz, March 18, 1945